GANG Meeting August 17, 2011: K. Scott Allen presents ASP.NET MVC 3

When

From: August 17, 2011 06:00 PM

To: August 17, 2011 09:00 PM

Publication date: February 17, 2011 12:00 AM

Where: Street: 1000 Towne Center Dr, suite 1930; City: Southfield; State: Michigan; Country: USA

What

Title: ASP.NET MVC 3

ASP.NET MVC is the test-friendly framework for building applications on top of ASP.NET. In this session we'll see how to use routing, implement controllers, and create Razor views while building a small application.

Speaker: K. Scott Allen

K. Scott Allen is the Principal Consultant with OdeToCode LLC and a member of the Pluralsight technical staff. Scott has over 16 years of commercial software development experience across a wide range of technologies. He is a published author in leading print and online technical journals, and also a speaker at national and international conferences.

Blog: http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/

Podcast: Herding Code

K Scott Allen’s presentation is made possible by JetBrains.

Lightning Talk Title: Units of measure in F#

"Remember the Mars Climate Orbiter which crashed in 1999? You may recall it crashed because of a misunderstanding between some of the developers regarding which units certain measures were to be expressed in. Some understood they should be measured in meters; others in feet. Now maybe you're not developing software to power a Mars probe but maybe your customers would still like you to be careful about making sure units aren't mixed up. F# gives you some excellent capabilities to insure you don't mix up your feet and meters or your dollars and your euros or your seconds, minutes and hours."

Speaker: Onorio Catenacci

Onorio is a senior consultant for Sogeti. In addition, he has been writing software for around 24 years in various languages ranging from C to Visual BASIC.
A self-taught programmer, he is always interested in learning about new techniques and approaches to improve our craft.
He has been working to learn functional programming for about the last year and a half and he's currently leading the MIGANG F# Special Interest Group. Plus he has some beautiful birds too.
In addition to his birds and his software development, Onorio is also a volunteer 4-H leader in Oakland County, helping to lead a club for kids who want to become veterinarians.
Later this year Onorio will be giving a presentation at 1DevDay Detroit 2011 entitled "Why You Should Start Learning Functional Programming Today"